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" If you can
find it at a garage sale for $5 that's probably doable...though I'd try talkin'
'em down some first. "

&nbsp Title: Wednesday 13's Weirdo A Go-Go -
Horror High

&nbsp Format: DVD - Comedy

&nbsp Reviewing Monkey: EEGAH!

&nbsp The Hype: Wednesday 13 as a musician is
equal parts Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson, and Weirdo A Go-Go is like Pee-Wee's
Playhouse on shrooms. What else could you possibly need to know?!

&nbsp What This Monkey Thought...

Story and Acting: Well as
I already said in the above paragraph, Weirdo A Go-Go is essentially a whacked-out
riff on Pee-Wee's Playhouse and as such has about as much story as an
episode of that show. But the backbone, as much as there was one, is that Cowboy
Dan is in jail for killing a seahorse and Wednesday 13 and his friend Billy
are selling lemonade in an attempt to raise bail for him. Occasionally the foul
mouthed, perverted denizens from the Weirdo A Go-Go world stop by to either
help or hinder the effort and we get to know them through short interludes.
Oh, and sometimes Wednesday introduces theatrical trailers for public domain
fright flicks.
As far as acting
goes, well you know that adage about every actor wanting to be a rockstar and
every rockstar wanting to be an actor and how the result of this artistic cross-pollination
usually winds up being an ill-advised exercise in futility. Well…Weirdo doesn't
do much to disprove the formula. The puppets get all the choice material and
most of Wednesday's lines are delivered in a stilted deadpan. But if you were
expecting Bridge To Tarabithia then you're either deluded or stupid.
Or both. 3 out of 5

&nbsp Visuals and Directing: Visually it's kind
of a hodgepodge of disparate pop culture references all thrown into a pressure
cooker and thus it's a difficult task to rate it as one would something with
a more conventional format. I'd have given it an even three but the sound design
was freakin' terrible in some parts. 2 ˝ out of 5

&nbsp DVD Extras: There's a whole mess of outtakes
(which considering Wednesday 13 is no John Malcovich are mostly just him blowing
takes), a staring contest between you (the viewer) and a puppet, a rather silly
bit involving Wednesday introducing himself in half a dozen languages, and two
PSAs (one of which is extremely helpful in teaching one the correct way to ward
off werewolves). There's also a not very informative interview with Wednesday
13 about the genesis of the show. 2 ˝ out of 5

&nbsp The Verdict:

Weirdo A Go-Go would be right at
home in the Something Weird Video catalogue. But if you're hoping for
a horror-rock musician to finally come out with a film project that really
knocks it out of the park, cinematically speaking....you can keep looking.
It had its moments but I was left to wonder if they were genuinely funny,
if I only found them funny because I'm a fan of Wednesday 13's twisted
humor, or if I was just stretching in an effort to find something
worthy of note.

&nbsp The Good: There are loads of obscure B-movie
references couched within to make us geeks feel superior to our friends for
not picking up on. There is promise of a sequel.

&nbsp The Bad: It's a guilty pleasure. You'll
secretly sit at home and laugh, but you'll probably never want to watch it with
friends. The sound mixing was at times tinny and echo-y. It wasn't quite as
funny as it was shooting for, or as it thought it was.

&nbsp The Overall Ugly: It's probably not suitable
for watching sober. It's probably not something that'd be fun to put on at a
party. It's probably too scary to watch on LSD. And if you're a Juggalo the
humor will go way over your head. Which means that Weirdo A Go-Go is probably
only of any value to its target audience: Wednesday 13 fans.

&nbsp What it's Worth: If you can find it at
a garage sale for $5 that's probably doable...though I'd try talkin' 'em down
some first.